Livia Gershon

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Hey y'all! It's election day! Get out there and vote, there are so many Moms For Liberty candidates for school boards, and many places people are pushing back. Lots of local and state LGBTQ+ candidate stoo. Which races are you watching for LGBTQ+ rights in your region?

One scholar even decried the practice of baking hot-cross buns on Good Friday for good luck, writing that it was “undoubtedly a relic of superstition and ought to be abolished.” (post based on work by @DrThomasWaters) daily.jstor.org/class-and-supe…

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While most 19th-century street vendors were very poor, many were happy to “be their own master.” As one bookseller put it, “I like the air; the street, the crowd; I like to speak and be heard.” daily.jstor.org/the-radical-st…

Before the mid-19th century, there was no such thing as "going to the bathroom." daily.jstor.org/dawn-of-the-ba…

Pro-segregation forces identified their cause as child protection. As one white mother declared at a 1977 rally, “We don’t want to lose control of our children, and that is what happens when they are bused.” (Post based on work by @1gillianfrank1) daily.jstor.org/parents-rights…

Coal boosters actively encouraged the energy transition to fossil fuels. They commissioned a company to build cheap coal stoves and offered prizes for the development of coal-burning technology. (Post based on work by @EnergyHistorian) daily.jstor.org/when-did-ameri…

Now do every state rep who works for a law firm or owns a company and still votes on issues related to their job

When Portugal established contact with Congo and Ethiopia around the turn of the sixteenth century, the three kingdoms had much in common, including similar levels of material development, systems of divine kingship, and belief in magic. daily.jstor.org/how-portuguese…

The first full Paleo diet book was published in 1975 by gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin, a eugenicist and white supremacist who also argued that tigers and dolphins posed a threat to humans and should be eradicated. daily.jstor.org/why-eat-like-a…

Early 20th-century medical professionals viewed the sex drive as a natural, healthy, creative force that would create problems if stymied. Most often, these arguments focused on white, heterosexual men. But sex radicals extended them to others. daily.jstor.org/pro-sex-femini…

This is incredible.

Jefferson despised whiskey for its “loathsome and fatal effects,” which he argued were “destroying the fortunes, the bodies, the minds, and morals of our citizens.” daily.jstor.org/making-malt-li…

The emerging capitalist cotton industry tied together Indian and Chinese technologies, enslaved African labor, European capital, and stolen American land. (post based on work by @Sven_Beckert) daily.jstor.org/understanding-…

Bayard Rustin was sentenced to twenty-two days on a North Carolina chain gang in 1949. His first-hand account of the experience ultimately helped end the practice. daily.jstor.org/race-prison-an…

Colonial governments cracked down on spiritual practices by the enslaved while maintaining a useful ambiguity about whether the magic was real. (post based on work by @diana_paton) daily.jstor.org/poison-and-mag…

Unions feel emboldened /pos

One seventeenth-century recipe collection praised horse-dung water as “being admirable for all diseases whatsoever.” daily.jstor.org/the-home-scien…

When 13-year-old William Henry West Betty first performed in London, a newspaper reported that the “screams of females were very distressing, and several fainted away.” daily.jstor.org/a-teen-celebri…